Sentence examples for an accelerating sea from inspiring English sources

This combined with an accelerating sea level rise, currently up to 3mm annually, soon adds up.

Previous studies have showed worrying signs about an accelerated sea level rise and its potential effects on shoreline regions.

A potent combination of accelerating sea level rise, salt water intrusion and subsidence of the land has caused devastating erosion and flooding, exacerbated further by regional oil and gas development and the shipping industry.

"We cannot expect as a society to respond to accelerating sea level rise if we can't even respond to linear sea level rise and storms," he said.

North Carolina--which was considering a bill forbidding the use of models that include accelerating sea level rise--would experience an even higher sea level threat than the 39-inch increase by 2100 a panel of state experts predicted in 2010.

By gauging the elevation and flow speed of the glaciers using satellite data, Ian Howat of the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory in Seattle and his colleagues found that Kangerdlugssuaq sped up abruptly in 2005, no doubt accelerating sea level rise just a bit.

Persistent and accelerating sea level rise (SLR) may have a significant impact on the evolution of sandy coastlines this Century.

Last summer, he and colleagues reported new evidence of accelerating sea level rise in the Middle Atlantic coast.

The year 2012 was also an extreme year for Greenland, with record melting across its entire surface flushing water into the ocean and accelerating sea level rise.

But this and other coastal hammocks that are already rare may ultimately fall to hurricanes and rising tides, especially if, as many scientists believe, global warming is accelerating sea level rise, while intensifying hurricanes.

There is some uncertainty and disagreement between scientists about the particulars of the accelerating sea level rise.